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over a year ago
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"The original 'ring' was good
Worst list is to big to mention
Oh I still love American werewolf in london"
Ring - when she crawls out of the tv is class.
And the transformation scene in American Werewolf still looks great today. |
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For the top spot I would have to go with Stanley Kubricks, The Shining. A fundimental film and what i would call one of the most influnetial horror films to have come out. Although its not terrifying as your typical horror films of today, it is certainly scary and leaves you with confusion. It gets more intriguing when you delve deep into the back story of the film. |
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Did anyone see doctor sleep
It was the follow up not massively true to the book but I still enjoyed it.
Honestly me and Steven king fell out over the dark tower |
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By *edGrayCouple
over a year ago
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"For the top spot I would have to go with Stanley Kubricks, The Shining. A fundimental film and what i would call one of the most influnetial horror films to have come out. Although its not terrifying as your typical horror films of today, it is certainly scary and leaves you with confusion. It gets more intriguing when you delve deep into the back story of the film. "
Many years ago I worked in hotels as an assistant manager. Late at night when everyone had gone to bed, I would do a security walk around before turning in myself. The shinning would always come to mind... 
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Personally I don’t think any of the films are truly scary. But the books are a different matter. Try reading The Shining and Amityville Horror as your bedtime read. Your minds eye sees a whole different scenario |
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"Omg I was just about to say it `Amityville`, read the book when I was 14. & Read it a few times... Scary Shit "
There's more in the Book than the Movie........ Yep |
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"Omg I was just about to say it `Amityville`, read the book when I was 14. & Read it a few times... Scary Shit
There's more in the Book than the Movie........ Yep "
And apparently a True Story |
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I would have gotten into character walking around the empty hotel screaming, "heres Johnny". I recently watched the Cecil Hotel documentry on netflix, now thats what i would call a real life version of the Overlook hotel just because of the horrors and mystery that lie within it. |
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"I would have gotten into character walking around the empty hotel screaming, "heres Johnny". I recently watched the Cecil Hotel documentry on netflix, now thats what i would call a real life version of the Overlook hotel just because of the horrors and mystery that lie within it."
I watched that, too. Was really interesting. It's what the American Horror Story "Hotel" season was based on. X |
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Not realy a horror but when I was 7 my uncle sat me down to watch tremors. Watching it as an adult its actually funny but honestly at 7 years old I had nightmares for years I couldn't sleep on the floor or anything never had a movie scare me so much!!!!!.
But now I think the new IT films are up there |
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Blair Witch project. In the context of when it was released, it was terrifying (especially as i really believed it was real). It still gives me the creeps now
Dawn of the dead (original version) and 28 Days Later were both pretty scary on first watch too. Actually, that opening scene in 28 weeks later is also up there with some of the scariest horror ever. It’s a shame the rest of the movie didn’t love up to that. |
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"Blair Witch project. In the context of when it was released, it was terrifying (especially as i really believed it was real). It still gives me the creeps now
Dawn of the dead (original version) and 28 Days Later were both pretty scary on first watch too. Actually, that opening scene in 28 weeks later is also up there with some of the scariest horror ever. It’s a shame the rest of the movie didn’t love up to that."
Where is he getting chased?
Yeah its boss that. |
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The original Texas chainsaw massacre had a really grimy authentic feel to it, when the girl gets hit in the head with the sledgehammer it was accidentally real too! The remake from 2003(I think) was pretty bloody good too!
The last one to make me check behind the curtains before bed was As above, so below, about the catacombs below Paris! |
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Used to be well into to horror but just can't watch them any more
Loads of zombie and b movie stuff
Driller killer
Living dead at Manchester morgue
Zombie flesh eaters
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I prefer the old hammer house of horror, Hitchcock, there is just something about them and maybe it is just the simple fact your imagination runs wild as to what is happening, rather than like modern movies where it is all too in your face.
Teenage time would be The Fly, Omen series and Poltergist
Of modern ones it has to be The Descent, 13 Ghosts, Saw (original only), Autopsy of Jane Doe and Event Horizon.
I won’t watch anything that has children in it or to realistic, Hostel was just stomach turning and why I avoid horror movies now. |
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Love American Horror Story i recently started watching it all over again. My favourite would have to be Asylum, followed by Freak show, Coven, Apoclaypse and Murderhouse. I still need to see the newest season though. |
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"I prefer the old hammer house of horror, Hitchcock, there is just something about them and maybe it is just the simple fact your imagination runs wild as to what is happening, rather than like modern movies where it is all too in your face.
Teenage time would be The Fly, Omen series and Poltergist
Of modern ones it has to be The Descent, 13 Ghosts, Saw (original only), Autopsy of Jane Doe and Event Horizon.
I won’t watch anything that has children in it or to realistic, Hostel was just stomach turning and why I avoid horror movies now. "
Event Horizon is brilliant, Sam Neil is so freaky in it! |
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"There's a Spanish language film called Rec, don't be put off by the subtitles, it's very very good"
Theres a whole series of rec films, all worth a watch, and an American version called quarantine that is pretty good to be honest. |
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"I prefer the old hammer house of horror, Hitchcock, there is just something about them and maybe it is just the simple fact your imagination runs wild as to what is happening, rather than like modern movies where it is all too in your face.
Teenage time would be The Fly, Omen series and Poltergist
Of modern ones it has to be The Descent, 13 Ghosts, Saw (original only), Autopsy of Jane Doe and Event Horizon.
I won’t watch anything that has children in it or to realistic, Hostel was just stomach turning and why I avoid horror movies now. "
Event Horizon is probably one of my top 20 favourite movies, I remember being outraged when Danny Boyle's sunshine film came out as it's a complete rip off of it. |
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"I prefer the old hammer house of horror, Hitchcock, there is just something about them and maybe it is just the simple fact your imagination runs wild as to what is happening, rather than like modern movies where it is all too in your face.
Teenage time would be The Fly, Omen series and Poltergist
Of modern ones it has to be The Descent, 13 Ghosts, Saw (original only), Autopsy of Jane Doe and Event Horizon.
I won’t watch anything that has children in it or to realistic, Hostel was just stomach turning and why I avoid horror movies now.
Event Horizon is probably one of my top 20 favourite movies, I remember being outraged when Danny Boyle's sunshine film came out as it's a complete rip off of it."
That one bit in particular |
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Horrors not really a genre I go for... Most of them just pass me by... But there have been a couple which have "moved" my fears...
Damien... But I suspect as I'd read the books first
Seven...
And a more recent one set in space.. I think it was called
Life.. |
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May have missed it but any love for Martyrs? Also although these may technically not be horror, how about Eden Lake and the original Funny Games? All the absolute classics have been identified above I think. Ooh, The Descent, that’s fun too  Mr. |
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The Vanishing original Dutch film, not the terrible remake.
Halloween
The Evil Dead
The Ring
Agree with Martyrs
And one that shouldn’t scare me (as very few films do) but I did get on the edge of my seat for ‘The Blair Witch Project’  |
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I recently watch 'Host'
https://youtu.be/SNlKbqHqGcY
A British horror movie during lockdown that reminds me of paranormal activity.
I enjoyed it. Not the best but it was very good |
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"May have missed it but any love for Martyrs? Also although these may technically not be horror, how about Eden Lake and the original Funny Games? All the absolute classics have been identified above I think. Ooh, The Descent, that’s fun too Mr. "
Eden Lake was enjoyable when it came out, but now that I’m older I find it a bit weird. Like, did they really make a horror movie to appeal to middle class people’s fear of chavs? |
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The Omen and Evil Dead were two I remember vividly as a kid!
There is a film called The Orphanage, a Spanish sub-titled film which has so many jump out your seat moments!
Recently I found the Conjuring series to also make you jump!
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"The Omen and Evil Dead were two I remember vividly as a kid!
There is a film called The Orphanage, a Spanish sub-titled film which has so many jump out your seat moments!
Recently I found the Conjuring series to also make you jump!
K"
The omen! That was it.... I called it Damien a few posts up.... Yes exactly as you said... Had in impact but wasn't especially graphic or monsters or gory... I think it worked so well from its simplicity |
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Halloween (original) and
An American Werewolf in London and
The Thing (original)
It's really difficult to make an original and good horror film now that hasn't already been done or based/borrows ideas from another film. A lot of horror films borrow elements from Aliens (1986).
For some reason they always seem to want to make a legacy of films like The Conjuring series or the Purge films. |
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"Water ship down - was horrified i was  "
Leeds City Council once showed it as a Saturday Matinee in Leeds City Hall when I was a kid. Cue loads of traumatised kiddies at the end. What were they thinking?! Times have changed thankfully! |
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"Water ship down - was horrified i was
Channel 5 put it on a few years ago during a holiday afternoon and some parents complained that it was too violent for such an early time slot"
When it was released in 1978 it was a U and considering classifications were stricter then than now, I wonder how it got through, maybe the simple fact it was animation. Three different reviewed of the movie in 1987 and 3013 leave its classification as a U. It was a movie I’ve never forgotten, fluffy bunnies no longer fluffy ! |
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"The Omen and Evil Dead were two I remember vividly as a kid!
There is a film called The Orphanage, a Spanish sub-titled film which has so many jump out your seat moments!
Recently I found the Conjuring series to also make you jump!
K
The omen! That was it.... I called it Damien a few posts up.... Yes exactly as you said... Had in impact but wasn't especially graphic or monsters or gory... I think it worked so well from its simplicity"
Omen was effective because it was "believable" in that it showed behaviours and accidents rather than twisting heads and goblins -
Nanny suicide off the house, mother falling off the landing, angry dogs, that glass on the truck scene etc
The psychological effect on Gregory Peck, him wondering if he was going mad... Brilliantly done.
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Did any one see dracular, the three part, I think it was bbc, but might have been on Netflix too, not exactly scary but an interesting take on the storey. Mostly two nuns interviewing the layer? The one nun was great in it, "house of God is it? That's good eh sister, we could use a man around the place" she was brilliant, actually Google her to see if I could find anything else she had been in , |
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